. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. lr. H. C. Robinson, in his Diary, speaks of a Westminster election a? ascene only ridiculous and disgusting. The vulgarabuse of the candidates from the vilest rabble,he adds, is not rendered endurable by either witor good temper. I saw, writes Cyrus , the electionfor Westminster, wlien Sheridan and Paull v/ererivals. Among other ridiculous things, a kind of 2:;8 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Covent Garden. Stage was brought from Drury Lane Theatre, sup-ported on mens shoulders; upon this there werefour tailors busily
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. lr. H. C. Robinson, in his Diary, speaks of a Westminster election a? ascene only ridiculous and disgusting. The vulgarabuse of the candidates from the vilest rabble,he adds, is not rendered endurable by either witor good temper. I saw, writes Cyrus , the electionfor Westminster, wlien Sheridan and Paull v/ererivals. Among other ridiculous things, a kind of 2:;8 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Covent Garden. Stage was brought from Drury Lane Theatre, sup-ported on mens shoulders; upon this there werefour tailors busily at work, with a live goose andseveral huge cabbages ; they came close up to thehustings, before Paull, amidst roars of joke was, that Paulls father had been a tailor. This town t>vo bargains has not worth one farthing,A Smithfield horse, and wife of Covent Garden. And that the tastes of its inhabitants were alike looseand extravagant may be gathered from Wycherley,who speaks of an ill-bred City dame, whose hus-band has been broke by living in Covent MACKLIN S HOUSE, TAVISTOCK ROW. A voter called out to Sheridan that he had longsupported him, but should, after that, withdraw hiscoimtenance from him. Take it away at once—take it away at once, cried Sheridan from thehustings ; it is the most villainous-looking counte-nance I ever beheld ! As to the morals of Covent Garden in theseventeenth century, we may leave them to beinferred from the following couj let in the epilogueto Drydens Limbcrhcim :— In a tavern at Covent Garden, the husband ofthe exquisite sculptress, the Hen. Mrs. Darner,shot himself in 1776. Mr. Damers suicide vvashastened, and indeed provoked, by the refusalof his father. Lord Milton, to discharge his Walpole, after entering at length intothis matter in a letter to Sir Horace Mann, inAugust, 1776, gives the follov/ing circumstantialaccount: — On Thursday Mr. Darner suppedat the Bedford Arms, in Covent Garden, with Coven
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